What are the best headlight packages?

[KATOOM]

Just now, Mopar1973Man said:

...or some of us went to 35w HID headlights. Then 18w watt LED driving lights. 

 

 

No argument from me.  But if there was an HID plug and play headlight assembly that wasn't close to a grand...and worked, I may consider that route.  But they're all outrageously expensive and usually gaudy awful looking.  Or we have to buy separate parts from various places and try to assemble something together after cutting and hacking which may or may not work right by the time you're done.

So.....at this stage I'm looking for easy peazy

[Mopar1973Man]

Looks like a normal light to me...

 

Yeah spendy... But mine where a package deal everything assembled just install. I upgraded to the Morimoto D2S lens. 

[KATOOM]

And they werent cheap either...were they.

[Mopar1973Man]

2 minutes ago, KATOOM said:

And they werent cheap either...were they.

 

Between the Morimoto D2S and the PIAA 530 LED's you're looking at $1,000 in lighting... The Morimoto went up in price with the D2S lens versus the H1 Mini's that most use. Then 2 day freight...

https://shop.retroshop.us/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=2G.RAM.RETRO

[Rogan]

Yeah, I can buy a lot of additional lights for 1000$.   lol

$1000 my be like:

 

or

 

[Mopar1973Man]

1 hour ago, Rogan said:

Yeah, I can buy a lot of additional lights for 1000$.   lol

 

From my past experience... I did the stock headlights plus four 100w aircraft landing lights. This worked for a while till the aircraft landing lights gone up in price and the lifespan went down to about 6 to 9 month and your buying all 4 bulbs again. So at $22 a bulb that $88 bucks a set or $176 worth per year. 

 

Then I did the sport headlights with the relay mod. That didn't last a year. The light pattern sucked bad. Even with the Aircraft lights backing them up it still sucked. The pattern wasn't where it needed to be. The secondary bulbs basically where a thin vertical band of light. Didn't add much to the high at all. The main bulb was OK but the pattern was scattered badly. 

 

 

 

Then I upgraded to the Morimoto's. During the time of the ordering, I talk to the gent at Retro Shop and ask him the differences between bulbs, lens, etc. When I had mine done I had the upgraded D2S lens used. Now those put out serious light. I'm at least 20 foot out from the edges of the highway so the ditch line is lit up good on both sides. On high beam the beam is capable of reaching 50 feet tall in the distance. The Morimoto has an absolute cut off shutter so you are not blinding oncoming traffic. Still at this point I had the aircraft lights...

 

 

Finally started losing bulbs on the driving lights. Instead of dropping another $88 buck for 6 months of light I jump to the PIAA LED driving lights. Now, these things are bad  . They are actually brighter than the Morimoto HID's. The light is so bright on a snow-covered road you need to turn them off. The wicked part is they are just a mere 18w load... Tiny compared to even stock 55w halogens. 

 

 

Might be a lot of money but... No longer am I shelling out dollars trying to fix these weak headlights with another mod or weak idea. If I totaled up all the money spent on aircraft landing bulbs, sport headlights, the custom-made relay mod, etc. I could have paid off the whole thing if I did it first thing. Yeah, I could of saved some money on shipping standard freight and if I wimped out and had the H! mini lens used. Then I would have been down to about $800.

[01cummins4ever]

yep  I agree we can have as much money wrapped up in our headlight mods to pay for a set of HIDs, and I know they put out excellent and uniform light pattern. I spent 200. on my sportheadlight conversion and then another 150 on the relay harness, then another 50 on better bulbs to replace the 9004 trying to get better high beams,  I replaced with Sylvania silver star ultra, I think they are like 40/65W if I remember right, they helped the high side but still mediocre at best, I am not going to give up on the sports yet , I think they fit the 2nd gen style nicely, still going to experiment with the improvement of the high beams, just havnt had time to mess with them lately, As of right now on the low side all 4 bulbs light up on the dim elaments, then when I hit the brights all elements in all 4 bulbs light up, I’m not quite sure if that’s correct or not.